12 MOA Drop: Bondi’s 2A Task Force Should Focus on 12 States

Gonna have to hold over hair, Pam. (This image is from the Kentucky Long FFP riflescope, located here: https://www.swampfoxoptics.com/)

What a difference an election makes!

Just six months ago, we were living in an America in which the might of the Federal government had been openly and vociferously turned against gun owners and gun dealers. We’ve gone from ATF doing no-knock midnight raids and “zero tolerance” policies that closed down gun dealers for minor paperwork errors, to a Second Amendment Task Force dedicated to protecting the Second Amendment. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been quoted saying, “For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more… President Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration.”

Wow. This strong defense of the 2A is music to our ears, and very long overdue. The trouble is that there’s so much damage to undo, it’s hard to know where to start. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has a 12-MIL recommendation for Bondi …

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As U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sets the course of action for the Justice Department’s newly-announced “Second Amendment Task Force,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has suggested in a letter that she unleash the new group on a dozen Democrat-controlled states which have adopted extremely restrictive gun control laws.

In his letter to Bondi, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb writes, “I would like to suggest that among the Task Force’s priorities might be to examine the patterns of egregious Second Amendment violations in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. All of these states have adopted laws in recent years which have essentially relegated Second Amendment rights to the level of government-regulated privileges.”

“The time has come,” Gottlieb said, “to put the anti-rights leadership in these states on notice that their crusade to destroy the individual rights protected by the Second Amendment is finished. On behalf of our members and supporters, we’re hopeful Attorney General Bondi brings the full force of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division against these Draconian gun control laws wherever they have been enacted.

“In our opinion, special attention should be paid to Washington, Oregon and California,” he observed, “where lawmakers have been essentially working off an agenda set by the gun prohibition lobby. Such impediments as requiring permits to purchase in order to exercise a fundamental right, creating large areas where the legal carrying of firearms is prohibited, mandatory training and testing—which is tantamount to a literacy test—are deliberate impairments created to discourage citizens from exercising their rights.

“In the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling, radical gun prohibitionists have only doubled down in their culture war against law-abiding gun owners and the Second Amendment,” he continued. “Their efforts amount to deprivation of rights under color of law, and this scenario cannot be allowed to continue. It is time to put an end to this nonsense and remind these zealots that the Bill of Rights is not a menu from which we can pick and choose which parts we want while throwing other parts in the trash.

“We have offered to provide any input or assistance Attorney General Bondi and the Second Amendment Task Force may need,” Gottlieb said.

Fred Mastison

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